Year-End Lists

Refinery29: Best Books of 2020

1. Memorial
   Bryan Washington
2. Transcendent Kingdom
   Yaa Gyasi
3. Leave the World Behind
   Rumaan Alam
4. Homeland Elegies
   Ayad Akhtar
5. Likes
   Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
6. The Vanishing Half
   Brit Bennett
7. A Burning
   Megha Majumdar
8. Parakeet
   Marie-Helene Bertino
9. Deacon King Kong
   James McBride
10. You Exist Too Much
    Zaina Arafat
11. Temporary
    Hilary Leichter
12. Pizza Girl
    Jean Kyoung Frazier
13. Perfect Tunes
    Emily Gould
14. The Lightness
    Emily Temple
15. Drifts
    Kate Zambreno
16. How Much of These Hills Is Gold
    C Pam Zhang
17. Heaven
    Emerson Whitney
18. Alice Knott
    Blake Butler
19. Want
    Lynn Steger Strong
20. Memorial Drive

    A Daughter's Memoir
    Natasha Trethewey
21. True Love
    Sarah Gerard
22. Little Gods
    Meng Jin
23. The Knockout Queen
    Rufi Thorpe
24. Little Eyes
    Samanta Schweblin
25. Pew
    Catherine Lacey
26. A Children's Bible
    Lydia Millet
27. Weather
    Jenny Offill
28. Luster
    Raven Leilani
29. Uncanny Valley
    Anna Wiener
30. The Disaster Tourist
    Yun Ko-eun
31. What Happens at Night
    Peter Cameron
32. Wow, No Thank You.
    Samantha Irby
33. Homie
    Danez Smith
34. If I Had Your Face
    Frances Cha
35. The New Wilderness
    Diane Cook
36. Topics of Conversation
    Miranda Popkey
37. My Baby First Birthday
    Jenny Zhang
38. The Office of Historical Corrections
    Danielle Evans
39. Thresholes
    Lara Mimosa Montes
40. Cleanness
    Garth Greenwell
41. Writers & Lovers
    Lily King
42. Days of Distraction
    Alexandra Chang
43. Real Life
    Brandon Taylor
44. Such a Fun Age
    Kiley Reid
45. The Mercies
    Kirin Millwood Hargrave
46. Piranesi
    Susanna Clarke
47. Interior Chinatown
    Charles Yu
48. Rest and Be Thankful
    Emma Glass
49. We Keep the Dead Close

    A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
    Becky Cooper
50. Death in Her Hands
    Ottessa Moshfegh